Weekday Getaway

At the beginning of last month, Nick and I escaped the hum-drum of Red Deer and escaped to the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. We picked up and left our dirty dishes in the sink, our dirty laundry on the floor and my staff without a manager. Sure it was only one night, but it's amazing how many phone calls I can get on my day off. But as per usual, I'm getting slightly ahead of myself.

We went to Banff on monday, but something also happened on the monday that facilitate this road trip. We (or rather Nick) bought a car. Yes that is right we are now the proud owners of a Chevy Cobalt SS. It's lazer blue sporty and fun. Oh did I mention that I still have only driven in about 3 times? And that is mostly because Nick has been around the past month on Spring Break up. But I'm not complaining.

So anyways, we took off in our brand new wheels and headed to Banff. The drive there was less than nice, seeing as that it snowed, rained, sleeted and fogged the entire way to Calgary. The trip thorugh the mountians was slightly less trechorous, but the views were definitely obscured by fog.

We arrived at our hotel and were quickly talked into upgrading our room to a superb moutain view, kingsized, jacuzzi suite. And man was it worth the extra $40. From the feather topped bed to the huge jacuzzi.... heaven. We spent a good portion of the night on the roof top heated pool looking out over the moutains with steam rising around us. The rest of the night I'm not going to write about.

The next morning we explored the town of Banff. Nick even bought me a musk-rat. Ok a musk-rat pelt. But it's fur and it makes me happy.

We went up the gondola, walked around in the snow and generally had an amazing time.

But the true highlight was actually the drive home. We gave ourselves lots of time to get back to Red Deer, even though going the short way (back through Calgary) only takes a little over two hours. Instead we went up through the park and for an awesome moutain drive. We made lots of photo stops. Mostly for glaciers, wildlife and shear beauty.

I say no more, and just share photos. Wait one more thing. Best monday/tuesday ever.

Oh yeah. And we saw 44 deer, 12 mountain goats and 1 wolf.